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Hurricane Sandy was probably one of the scariest things I have lived through. Ever.
The way your body shakes or shutters every time Sandy’s winds hit the window out of pure fear and consciousness that a million things could go terribly wrong. The lights flickering so quickly, and regularly, that it’s almost like you’re blinking, but you know it’s not you it’s everything that is happening outside.
The sense of fear comes from not being to do anything; being completely at the mercy of nature is inexplicably humbling.
I was lucky. My area did not get hit badly, I didn’t lose power, my grandmother was safe, and we were alive. I counted my blessings, 100 times over.
Others weren’t so lucky and for them my heart broke. I was consoled by the fact that New York City showed that for all the privacy we seek, we are still a city that knows solidarity and protects their neighbor.
I followed most of the storm, like many others, through TV coverage and Twitter. To say that these reporters did an amazing job covering the storm is an epic understatement. The images below all link to stories that I think covered Sandy the best they could. I also followed Anthony D. Rosa of Reuters’s twitter throughout the entire storm and afterwards. Even though he wasn’t like one of the news reporters on the ground, his insight was amazing. I especially liked that he volunteered on Saturday in SI and tweeted about what was really going on there. Unfortunately, news channels were not covering how horrific SI’s destruction is and how displaced these people feel. Rosa captured that emotion in his tweets and rallied more people to go volunteer and help.
But then your heart breaks all over again when you hear of the mandatory evacuations at NYU Langone and how babies in NICU and PICU were being kept alive by nurses pumping manual ventilators.
Photo Credit: Bloomberg
Photo Credit: NY Magazine
Photo Credit: The Daily Beast
There’s just absolutely no way to fathom how a hurricane could come to New York and lead to this:
Photo Credit: The Daily News
I might have gotten through Hurricane Sandy without any loss (of any kind), but there is not one second that I don’t acknowledge that any of the above very easily could have been me.
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Malynda // Nov 8th 2012 at 2:09 pm
Great post and pictures. You perfectly captured the sentiment of people who where not harmed but were, and still are concerned about their neighbors.
Although the storm was devastating, it was amazing how we all worked together to help our neighbors and get through such a terrible crisis.
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